The quick and easy method as spelled out here https://sourceforge.net/p/soundtracker/ ... sg36886348
provides this workaround to install the Stretch version
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wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/goocanvas/libgoocanvas-dev_1.0.0-1_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/goocanvas/libgoocanvas3_1.0.0-1_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/goocanvas/libgoocanvas-common_1.0.0-1_all.deb
su -c "dpkg -i libgoocanvas-common_1.0.0-1_all.deb"
su -c "dpkg -i libgoocanvas3_1.0.0-1_amd64.deb"
su -c "dpkg -i libgoocanvas-dev_1.0.0-1_amd64.deb"
I tend to agree with this assessment and decided to try another workaround, which may or may not be better but I prefer it.There was a problem with goocanvas. SoundTracker depends on it, but in
Debian Buster, goocanvas is not available anymore. So I had to download
old packages from Debian Stretch, which is usually not a good idea.
There were also a few compiler warnings of pointer-to-int casts. This
might lead to crashes as int is usually 32 bits wide, and a pointer is
64 bits wide on recent systems.
The workaround is to manually install the necessary files in /usr/local/
To download the Debian 9 “Stretch” packages ->
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mkdir goocanvas
cd goocanvas
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/goocanvas/libgoocanvas-dev_1.0.0-1_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/goocanvas/libgoocanvas3_1.0.0-1_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/goocanvas/libgoocanvas-common_1.0.0-1_all.deb
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mkdir tmp
dpkg-deb -R libgoocanvas-common_1.0.0-1_all.deb tmp
rm -R tmp/DEBIAN/
dpkg-deb -R libgoocanvas-dev_1.0.0-1_amd64.deb tmp
rm -R tmp/DEBIAN/
dpkg-deb -R libgoocanvas3_1.0.0-1_amd64.deb tmp
rm -R tmp/DEBIAN/
mkdir tmp/usr/lib/libgoocanvas3
mkdir tmp/usr/lib/pkgconfig
mv tmp/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/goocanvas.pc tmp/usr/lib/pkgconfig/
rm -R tmp/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig
mv tmp/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/* tmp/usr/lib/libgoocanvas3
rm -R tmp/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
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nano tmp/usr/lib/pkgconfig/goocanvas.pc
prefix=/usr to prefix=/usr/local
and
libdir=${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu to libdir=${prefix}/lib/libgoocanvas3
so that goocanvas.pc looks like
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prefix=/usr/local
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=${prefix}/lib/libgoocanvas3
includedir=${prefix}/include
Name: GooCanvas
Description: A GTK+ canvas widget using cairo
Version: 1.0.0
Requires: gtk+-2.0 cairo
Libs: -L${libdir} -lgoocanvas
Cflags: -I${includedir}/goocanvas-1.0
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sudo cp -R tmp/usr/* /usr/local/
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/usr/local/lib/libgoocanvas3
to /etc/ld.so.conf
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sudo nano /etc/ld.so.conf
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sudo ldconfig